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GENELUX Corp

Next earnings Aug 3, 2026 · consensus $-0.20 EPS

Avoid
$2.99
▲ +3.10%
$2.99▲ 0.00%
over 1Y
L $2.35H $8.11
Earnings Dividend Split Congress buy Congress sellGrouped by date · hover a pin to expand
Today+3.1%
1W+3.1%
1M+1.4%
3M+16.3%
YTD-34.3%
1Y+0.0%
OverviewFinancialsValuationQualityTimelineFilings
Rating
Avoid
Quality
F
Valuation
Fair value
Filings
Flagged
Avoid
Conviction
Horizon
Long (>12mo)
Street · 12 analysts
Buy

Cash-strapped clinical-stage biotech with no product revenue, chronic losses and serial dilution — a binary bet, not an investable business.

Cash & equivalents $5.33M · FY2025

Genelux is a late clinical-stage oncolytic-virus company with no approved products and, by its own MD&A, 'have not generated any revenue from product sales.' The $8.00K FY2025 'revenue' is a rounding artifact, which makes the 16,746x P/S and the -415,175% operating margin meaningless — this equity trades entirely on the clinical prospects of lead candidate Olvi-Vec, not on financials. That is the definition of an unknowable, binary outcome: valuation cannot anchor to fundamentals when there are none.

The balance sheet is the acute problem. FY2025 ended with just $5.33M cash against a -$25.3M operating cash burn and a -$32.1M net loss — roughly a month or two of runway on year-end cash alone. Total assets fell 45.2% to $19.0M, current assets fell 52.0%, stockholders' equity dropped 56.1% to $11.5M, and the accumulated deficit swelled to -$284M. Management is explicit that it 'will require substantial additional funding' and 'may be unable to raise additional funds… when needed on acceptable terms, or at all.' Survival depends on the capital markets, not the business.

Is GNLX a buy? The one-page verdict, explained →

The options angle

model · matches our verdict
Bear put spread (caution)~90d expiry
  • Long put 3 @ ~0.25 est
  • Short put 2.5 @ ~0.06 est
debit $19max +$31max −$19BE 2.81

AVOID means we wouldn't engage at all — if expressing the short side anyway, only with capped risk.

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Educational template, not a trade recommendation. Strikes and premiums are Black-Scholes model estimates from the last close and 30-day realized volatility — real chains, spreads and IV will differ. Options involve substantial risk.

Financials · annual, by fiscal year

Line itemFY22FY23FY24FY25
Revenue$11.1M$170K$8.00K$8.00K
Gross profit————
Operating income-$3.01M-$24.2M-$31.7M-$33.2M
Net income-$5.21M-$28.3M-$29.9M-$32.1M
Diluted EPS-$0.57-$1.16-$0.95-$0.86
Net margin-47.0%-16645.3%-373362.5%-401812.5%

Annual figures from SEC 10-K XBRL filings. Open the filing links below for full statement detail.

Key statistics

Valuation

Enterprise value$130M
EV / EBITDA—
EV / Sales16205.0
EV / FCF—
P / FCF—
PEG (trailing)—
Earnings yield-24.0%
FCF yield-19.7%

Quality & risk

ROIC (est.)-210.9%
Free cash flow-$26.4M
Total debt$900K
Net cash$4.43M
Altman Z-Score-15.31 distress
Piotroski F-Score2/7

Capital returns

Buyback yield—
Dividend yield (est.)—
Shareholder yield—
Shares Δ YoY+29.5%

Computed from SEC XBRL annual figures + the current quote. EV and ROIC use long-term + current debt where filed; estimates, not investment advice.

Disclosure timeline

SEC · 8-Ks + reports
Recent disclosure tone has skewed negative — read the flagged items.
  1. 8-K Shareholder vote2026-06-22

    Annual meeting held; shareholders voted on director slate and routine proposals

  2. 10-Q Quarterly report2026-05-07

    Q1'26: losses continue but post-quarter Jan raise lifted cash position

  3. DEF 14A Proxy statement2026-04-29

    Proxy for 2026 annual meeting — director slate and say-on-pay

  4. 8-K Material agreement2026-03-19

    FY25 net loss widened to $32.1M; cash just $5.3M, deficit $283.5M

  5. 10-K Annual report2026-03-19

    FY25 net loss widened to $32.1M; cash just $5.3M, deficit $283.5M

  6. 8-K Reg FD disclosure2026-02-02

    Reg FD: furnished a corporate/clinical update presentation

  7. 8-K Other event2026-01-08

    Closed offering; ~$18.5M net proceeds bolster a very thin cash runway

  8. 8-K Reg FD disclosure2026-01-05

    Priced 6.67M-share offering at $3.00 — dilutive capital raise

  9. 8-K Officer / director change2026-01-02

    Officer/director change disclosed just ahead of the January raise

Recent filings

all on EDGAR ↗
4Period ending 2026-07-012026-07-02open ↗144Filing2026-07-01open ↗8-KPeriod ending 2026-06-162026-06-22open ↗4Period ending 2026-06-162026-06-18open ↗4Period ending 2026-06-162026-06-18open ↗4Period ending 2026-06-162026-06-18open ↗4Period ending 2026-06-162026-06-18open ↗4Period ending 2026-06-162026-06-18open ↗4Period ending 2026-06-162026-06-18open ↗4Period ending 2026-06-162026-06-18open ↗4Period ending 2026-06-162026-06-18open ↗4Period ending 2026-06-162026-06-18open ↗

Quality score

F
ValueGrowthProfitHealthMom.
ValueF
GrowthD
ProfitabilityF
Financial healthC+
MomentumF
  • ✗Revenue growing year-over-year
  • ✗Profitable (positive net income)
  • ✗Net margin above 10%
  • ✗Return on equity above 15%
  • ✓Liabilities below 2× equity
2.3052-week8.24
Revenue
$8.00K
+0.0% YoY
Net margin
-401812.5%
ROE
-278.5%
P/E
—

SEC fundamentals · FY 2025

'22'23'24'25

■ revenue · ■ net income, by fiscal year

Revenue$8.00K+0.0%
Net income-$32.1M-7.6%
Operating income-$33.2M-4.8%
Diluted EPS-$0.86+9.5%
Cash & equivalents$5.33M-37.7%
Total assets$19.0M-45.2%
Total liabilities$7.48M-11.4%
Stockholders' equity$11.5M-56.1%
Op.: -415175.0%L/E: 0.65x

Frequently asked

Is GENELUX Corp (GNLX) a buy?
GNLX currently carries a Avoid rating with 4/5 conviction, derived from its latest SEC filings. Cash-strapped clinical-stage biotech with no product revenue, chronic losses and serial dilution — a binary bet, not an investable business.
What is GENELUX Corp's quality score?
GNLX scores 35.13521421107629/100 (grade F) on a SEC-grounded quality model spanning value, growth, profitability, financial health and momentum.

Sources: SEC EDGAR (CIK 0001231457, latest 10-Q filed 2026-05-07) · EODHD · Proprietary analysis · as of 7/3/2026, 4:16:51 PM.

›About this recommendation — produced by TENK/calls (tenkcalls.com), Luxembourg · not investment advice

AI-generated analysis, produced by our proprietary engine from SEC filing data.

Investment recommendation produced by TENK/calls (tenkcalls.com), Luxembourg. Completed Jul 3, 2026, 12:16 PM ET. Ratings & methodology: definitions · All recommendations to date: track record · Conflicts: disclosures. Not investment advice.

Research and education only — not financial advice. TENKis not a registered investment adviser or broker-dealer and gives no personalized advice. Every call is impersonal — identical for all users, generated on a schedule from SEC filings plus a delayed/third-party price feed — may be wrong or out of date, and is not a recommendation to buy or sell any security. The operator and an affiliated trading operation may hold or trade the securities TENK rates; see Disclosures. Past performance does not guarantee future results. Do your own research.

Insider activity

Form 4 · SEC

Last 90 days: 0 open-market buys · 1 sale

2026-07-01
Smither John W
Director
Sell12.0K @ $2.91$34.9K
2026-06-16
Pulisic Matthew
Chief Financial Officer
Award279K
2026-06-16
Groen Eric
General Counsel
Award234K
2026-06-16
Cappello Joseph
Chief Technical Officer
Award175K
2026-06-16
Tyree James L
Director
Award28.4K
2026-06-16
Zindrick Thomas
President and CEO
Award731K
2026-06-16
Thomas John
Director
Award28.4K
2026-06-16
Mirabelli Mary
Director
Award28.4K

Earnings history

beat/miss · move
2025-03-25—▼ -22.40%8-K ↗
2024-02-02—▼ -8.78%8-K ↗

Dates from 8-K (Item 2.02); beat/miss = reported EPS vs consensus (Finnhub, recent quarters); move = prior close → close on/after.

Vs tracked universe

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1195 tracked peers · median

TENK Score35 vs 67
Revenue growth0.0% vs 7.5%
Net margin-401812.5% vs 10.0%
Return on equity-278.5% vs 12.0%
P/E— vs 26.2